Constraints invites submissions for a special issue celebrating its 20th Anniversary.
The year 2016 marks the 20th Anniversary of the Constraints journal. From the beginning, the Journal has brought the constraint reasoning and constraint programming community together to share ideas and advances and to introduce newcomers to the challenges and accomplishments of the field.

Learn a new way to approach problem solving by stating the problem and letting powerful constraint solving software do the rest. This class teaches you the art of encoding complex discrete optimization problems in the MiniZinc modeling language and then shows you how to effortlessly solve them by leveraging state-of-the-art open-source constraint solving software.

On the Saturday after the CP 2015 conference (http://booleconferences.ucc.ie/cp2015), we will organise a Sprint event to make improvements to the CSPlib problem library (http://csplib.org). This event is an informal gathering of interested researchers and practitioners. We will add new, interesting problems, add new solutions to existing problem instances, and work on improving references and links in the library. This is the perfect way to end the trip to Cork for the CP conference and serve as an excellent starting point to contributing to a valuable resource for the CP community.

Spend a week by the beach learning about the latest optimisation
technologies. How can you help a business reduce its costs?
Or reduce their carbon footprint? Or do both? The school is
sponsored by the Optimisation Research Group of NICTA
http://org.nicta.com.au/

CP 2015 will be co-located with the 31st International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2015) and is part of George Boole 200, a celebration of the life and work of George Boole who was born in 1815 and worked at the University College of Cork. CP 2015 will take place in Cork, Ireland from August 31-September 4, 2015.

Dates: July 8-11th
Location: University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada

The subject of the 2015 ACP Summer School is "New Frontiers in Constraint Programming", where we explore some of the most exciting and innovative applications and research directions in Constraint Programming that have been shaping the field in recent years. The goal of the school is to familiarize PhD students, post-docs, and interested researchers with these new perspectives to foster ideas that can contribute to their own research and to better position themselves in the field.

The ACAI Summer School 2015 will be held at Lille, France, from the
26th October to the 30th October 2015 and its topic will be
Constraints Solving Techniques in Artificial Intelligence. It will be
organized by CRIL (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens -
http://www.cril.fr).

The Twelfth International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint Programming will be held in Barcelona, Spain, May 18-22, 2015 with Workshops on May 18th, a Master Class on Verification and Constraint Programming on May 19, and the Main Conference on May 20-22, 2014. More information available at http://cpaior2015.uconn.edu.

ANTS 2014 will give researchers in swarm intelligence the
opportunity to meet, to present their latest research, and to
discuss current developments and applications.
The three-day conference will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on
September 10-12, 2014.

CP-AI-OR 2014 workshops will provide an informal setting where
workshop participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific
technical topics in an atmosphere that facilitates the active exchange
of ideas.

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Success stories

On June 13th 2015, the robot-lab Philae woke up on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko to resume a series of experiments interrupted seven months ago. These experiments were scheduled using Constraint Programming, and researchers of the team ROC of the LAAS-CNRS lab developed
propagation algorithms
to help the Scientific Operations and Navigation Centre (SONC) to efficiently achieve this task.